GEO’s Global Priorities

GEO’s global priorities include supporting the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. It does this through advocating for and making available broad, open Earth observations to support informed decisions and action.

Earth observations play a major role in achieving the SDGs. GEO is instrumental in integrating Earth observation data into the methodology of measuring and achieving SDG indicators.

GEO makes available Earth observations in support of effective policy responses for climate change adaptation and mitigation, working with partners to enhance global observation systems in order to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards.

Earth observations contribute to disaster preparedness and better mitigation and response. GEO supports disaster resilience by increasing coordination of Earth observations to forecast and prepare for disasters, to reduce damage and to better manage and recover from disasters.